Report the evolution of Emacs Lisp sources.

From:

A Soare

Subject:

Report the evolution of Emacs Lisp sources.

Date:

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:05:01 +0200 (CEST)

In this moment, the only method to see how the code of emacs evaluated is
`diff'.
One can show the differences, by comparing the internal representation of the
lisp code tree of 2 versions. I saw this idea for the C code here:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mwh/papers/evolution.pdf .
An advantage of this method would be to report only one when the name of a
variable changes. This method will also ignore to report the null-effect
characters like blanks or empty new lines. diff reports everything.
What do you think, it would be useful such a tool to make reports of lisp code
changes? Maybe I will try it, but it might be _realy_ useful?
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